Abstract
This paper examines ethical issues underpinning urban university engagement in community spaces. The intent is to encourage an evaluation stance and consider how university representatives and community representatives might justly approach and develop partnerships. The paper questions whether faculty, staff, and community partners take action to cultivate public dialogue, or what might be called democratic voice, to bring about social change. Social change organizations unambiguously try to affect and reshape public and environmental affairs, group dynamics, processes, and outcomes. Are the university administration and faculty, in partnership with community stakeholders, ready to take on the charge of social change organization?
Recommended Citation
Murtadha, Khaula
(2016)
"Urban University Community Engagement: Questions of Commitment to Democratic Ethics and Social Change,"
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/jcehe/vol8/iss1/4
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